As my contribution during the sprints at PyCon 2015, I've tweaked Jervis's patch a little and updated the tests/docs to work with Python 3.5.
My only real change was placing the basic reader object inside a generator expression that filters out empty lines. Being partial to functional programming I find this removes some of the code clutter in __next__(), letting that method focus on turning rows into tuples.
Hopefully this will rekindle the discussion!